Saddam's Human Rights Abuses

Physicians for Human Rights, in a survey of nearly 2,000 Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, found that almost half reported that they or household members had suffered abuse, ranging from torture and death to amputation and forced conscription by Hussein's regime between 1991 and the end of his reign last year. The survey's results were detailed in the March 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.